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  • Since they assume that Jeremiah had a finished pentateuch in front of him, they imagine that his readers would have nuanced his statement in a similar way.

    Jeremiah 7:22 as Evidence for the Date of Leviticus James F. McGrath 2010

  • For example, the Dead Sea scrolls established that more than 1500 years of copying by hand (before printing) have produced virtually no divergences in the text (of the pentateuch).

    Hodge podge for $200, Alex - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • And the Talmudic rule for Biblical interpretation is that “the Bible that is the pentateuch speaks the language of ordinary people engaged in ordinary conversation”.

    Zimmer on evolutionary compromises - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • David Soyka reviewed the first of Jones' new pentateuch, Bold as Love, saying "no sane person wants anyone who can actually mouth without gagging the insipid lyrics to a piece of pop crap like 'We Are the World' running a government," leavening this, however, with examples to the contrary, i.e.

    Major World News Headlines 2004

  • David Soyka reviewed the first of Jones' new pentateuch, Bold as Love, saying "no sane person wants anyone who can actually mouth without gagging the insipid lyrics to a piece of pop crap like 'We Are the World' running a government," leavening this, however, with examples to the contrary, i.e.

    Archive 2004-06-01 2004

  • David Soyka reviewed the first of Jones' new pentateuch, Bold as Love, saying "no sane person wants anyone who can actually mouth without gagging the insipid lyrics to a piece of pop crap like 'We Are the World' running a government," leavening this, however, with examples to the contrary, i.e.

    Gwyneth Jones 2004

  • Moses lived and wrote the pentateuch 1,500 years before the birth of Jesus, therefore that portion of our Bible is at least 300 years older than the most ancient of other sacred writings.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • It is as easy to turn God out of all the pentateuch, and put Moses into it, as to maintain the proposition that Moses had a law of his own.

    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 Various

  • As we are sure who was the author of the first five books of the Old Testament, which were the foundation of that revelation, so we are sure who were the penmen of the four gospels and the Acts, the pentateuch of the New Testament.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Sameri, who had not made a mould of that figure: and that when Aaron excuses himself to his brother, in the pentateuch, he seems as if he would persuade him it was an accident. 4

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) George Sale 1716

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  • I always mix this one up with the pentatonic

    September 27, 2009